Paramormyrops batesii (Boulenger, 1906)

The type locality is in South Cameroon where two specimens were collected by George Latimer Bates, 1863-1940, an American naturalist and ornithologist who lived in Southern Cameroon during the first decade of the 20th Century and supplied many fish and reptile and amphibian specimens from this region to G.A. Boulenger at the British Museum. The type locality for Marcusenius batesii and several other species first collected by Bates is Efulen. Although several localities in Southern Cameroon today bear the name "Efoulan." The Efulen (now Efoulan) of Bates is located in the upper Kienk River basin (then called the Kribi River), near present-day Akom II at 246'59"N, 1031'59"E (Fig. 12.89). Tentative identifications of museum specimens shows a wide distribution in Cameroon, including the Sanaga River basin, the Kienk River, parts of the Ogowe River basin of Gabon, and the Kouilou River basin of Congo. Some of the specimens mapped here may represent new taxa.